ESPERANZA PREPARATORY ACADEMY

ESPERANZA PREPARATORY ACADEMY is a four-year high school of tight-knit scale in NEW YORK, New York, one of the schools within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 4, hosting 528 students in grades 6 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 21% leaner than the state mean of about 668.

NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 4 runs 30 schools in total, collectively educating 11,316 students. ESPERANZA PREPARATORY ACADEMY is one of those campuses.

Demographically, ESPERANZA PREPARATORY ACADEMY shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (81%); the rest breaks down as 14% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, New York County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 72 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 96% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, New York County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, ESPERANZA PREPARATORY ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.8%, the actual is 32.9%, a residual of -6.9 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for New York County indicate the typical household earns roughly $103,931 per year, 64% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. ESPERANZA PREPARATORY ACADEMY is one of 358 public schools in New York County (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students).

TAG YOUNG SCHOLARS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ESPERANZA PREPARATORY ACADEMY at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 54.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ESPERANZA PREPARATORY ACADEMY has edged down 6%, going from 564 students in 2018 to 528 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 85% to 81% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 11.5:1 in 2018 to 7.3:1 in 2025.

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